Abstract:Spiral structures are a widespread theme in plant morphology, raising considerable interest amongst botanists and mathematicians for their relationship with Fibonacci numbers (see Cooke. 2006 for a recent review). Most of this research has focused on phyllotaxis, the study of the relative arrangement of repeated units, such as leaves around a stem, etc. (Jean, 1994;Adler et al. 1997). Several hypotheses have been provided to explain the pervasiveness of phyllotaxis in plant morphology, such as an increased lig… Show more
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